This tower I canīt like any more. Maybe itīs tall, but the original project promised much more and the disappointment is so big. Another grey cladding, like CTF Guangzhou. Both claddings are plain and boring. Pingan looks worse than Kingkey and CTF Guangzhou worse than Guangzhou IFC.

2015 was a major year for skyscraper construction. With the completion of 432 Park Avenue in New York City, there were 100 supertalls soaring high above cities all around the world at year's end. 2016 is shaping up to be just as big, if not bigger, in the world of skyscrapers. One of the tallest towers on the planet will be completed this year in the Ping An Finance Centre, a 115-storey behemoth currently topped-out in Shenzhen, China. Ping An Finance Centre, image by MisterFoley via Flickr

It does not look bad without the spire. However, for a building of such importance, anything less than perfect is sacrilege. Let this be a lesson to architecture students on how a brilliant design is ruined by needless bureaucracy.

Its not possible to see PAFC from Hong Kong Island (2IFC), from South Kowloon (ICC) or Chep Lap Kok Airport. Its to far away or you have mountains between.

The picture you see in post #10267 is a view from Hong Kong - but from a hill near Fanling MTR station (and still 10 kilometers away from PAFC).

Actually, hidden somewhere in the depths of this thread there is a photo taken from Chek Lap Kok (on a relatively clear day, with a telephoto lens). There's a sweet spot with a gap between the mountains.